International cooperation twists and turns

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Spotted in the RUSI Journal in October 2017 a Chinese academic foreign affairs professor on this previously unknown co-operation between China and Japan over abandoned chemical weapons scattered across the PRC. The article is behind a pay-wall alas:https://rusi.org/publication/rusi-jo...lated=0&page=9

This is an Abstract from another journal:

For more than two decades, China and Japan have worked to eliminate the chemical weapons that Japan abandoned in China at the end of World War II. The process has involved numerous challenges, such as excavating corroded munitions that had been buried in the city of Beian along with sensitive explosives; working in the aftermath of an accident that sickened more than 40 people in Qiqihar; establishing innovative destruction technologies in Nanjing; and, at Haerbaling Mountain, embarking on the clean-up of the largest burial site for abandoned chemical weapons in China. Though bilateral tensions have sometimes strained the destruction process, Sino-Japanese cooperation has ultimately provided a useful model for nations elsewhere engaged in the disposal of abandoned chemical weapons.

Link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/...nalCode=rbul20

The Japanese Cabinet Office explain why:http://wwwa.cao.go.jp/acw/index-e.html

A task that has no end in sight and from a 2014 press article:

In 1999 Tokyo and Beijing agreed to destroy the devices, with Japan providing all necessary funds, technology, experts and other resources. Originally the process was meant to be completed by 2007, a deadline later pushed back to 2012. It has since been delayed further.

Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp...ion-China.html